cpu limit

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    Proxmox Thermal Throttling at 50c

    What happened Yesterday I rebooted proxmox (which had an uptime of months) and found that when I started up my handbrake lxc my CPU wouldnt go above 15W draw. I have updated the host system maybe twice in the last few months but never had any issue, its possible I never rebooted after those...
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    Need help with Proxmox hotplug CPU issue

    Hey everyone, I'm having an issue with hotplugging CPUs in Proxmox. Here's what's happening: Set a limit of 6 vCPUs. Launched a Windows VM with 2 vCPUs. Enabled NUMA and hotplug options in the VM settings. When I try to increase the number of vCPUs using the edit option in the hardware...
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    User permissions

    Hello every one, is it possible to create users in proxmox and limit the number of Vms they can create?
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    CPU Limit with Hosting Practices

    I have a a couple of dozen clients utilizing VMs on my Proxmox cluster. I've made a practice of always setting resource limits for VMs, at half the core count. So if it is an 8 core VM, I will set the CPU Limit to 4. I have a client using 4 Windows VMs, maxing out the CPUs with something Twitch...
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    Hypethreading (SMT) and CPU settings

    Hello, I have Proxmox VE 7.0 running on PC with AMD Threadripper 2920X (12C/24T). SMT (or Hyperthreading) is enabled. CPU has two NUMA nodes. I have two VMs: 1. WIndows 10 VM for gaming and work. 2. Linux VM that is hosting game, web and mail servers. Both VMs have high CPU utilization. Windows...
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    VM Prioritization: CPU units won't work for me

    Hey, I’m running the newest PVE (6.4-5) with a Ryzen 5 3600. This Server is running multiple VMs and LXC Containers. I've given every VM the full amount of cores - 12. One VM is encoding Videos with a high CPU usage. But it doesn't need to do that with a very high priority - but when the...
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    LXC settings: Cores, CPU limit, CPU units

    Can anyone explain me how to set these values in order to balance the load of every LXC Container? I got 1 physical CPU with 6 cores and 12 threads. What are some Cores, CPU limit, CPU units example values to share among the LXC Containers?
  8. grin

    [SOLVED] [cpu::cores] pct in v5 diverges from documentation

    In proxmox5 cpu setting have diverged from all the documentation. It seems that cores setting is gone, as well as cpusets, and right now only cpulimit prevailed. First, documentation thinks otherwise. Very probably should be updated. Second, this may be a problem if the programs in the...
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    PROXMOX windows high cpu

    I am using a 56 GB RAM CPU, I have several instances installed between them sgt: - Windows Server 2016 - Ubuntu 14.04 - Centos 6.8 - Centos 7.2 Well I describe that in Windows Server it has a ReFS format of a 100GB volume, On two drives and 24...
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    Error when setting cpulimit to 0 on web interface

    Hi, I'm running Proxmox 4 and would like to set cpu limit to 0 for all my guests in order to let guests use all physical CPU cores. But, when I go to the web interface, select a VM, go to Ressources > CPU Limit, set CPU Limit to 0 and then apply, I obtain this error message: closing file...
  11. onlime

    LXC container with unlimited cpulimit/memory

    How can I set CPU usage and memory to unlimited for a LXC container? This is used for a single CT which should be able to use all physical system resources. In some situations the Proxmox host node hosts 2 LXC containers, both without such limits. In more than 99% of the time it does only host a...
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    Revisiting CPU limit for LXC 2.0 / LXD

    Upon reading the LXD / LXC 2.0 documentation, I have come across some new CPU limit features on this page: https://www.stgraber.org/2016/03/26/lxd-2-0-resource-control-412/ According to @dietmar Proxmox can do anything LXD does: So it looks possible to see and use only a limited number of...

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